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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Provide support in Db2 native encryption for KMIP 1.2 or higher

DB2 native encryption currently supports KMIP 1.1 where the master key flows (in a secure communication channel) from the centralized keystore to Db2 in order to decrypt the data encryption key. Later versions of KMIP support an alternate approach...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

With RACF-exit, support auth cache refresh for RACF profiles with RACFVARS

Currently RACF ENF signals for the DB2 auth cache refresh are ignored if the profile contains a &RACFVAR class variable. This blocks the practical use of these profiles. In our case we have on one sysplex two different sets of DB2 subsystems(o...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

generate audit-records in table OPTIM_AUDIT_RECORDS

currently audit-records are created in OPTIM_AUDIT_RECORDS regardless of the audit-settings.
about 4 years ago in Optim 2 Not under consideration

DB2 zOS LOAD SHRLEVEL CHANGE - provide # of rows processed

Enhancement request: When LOAD SHRLEVEL CHANGE utility abended, DB2 should provide the number of input records processed. Justification: If a LOAD SHRLEVEL CHANGE utility abended and then restarted successfully, the utility will skip the processed...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

group queries (e.g. in folders)

our customer often uses more than 20 queries in his reports and wants to group the queries (e.g. in folders) to locate relevant queries faster for easier maintenance of his reports.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Repair Catalog of Indexspaces

After using DSN1COPY to copy table- and indexspaces from one subsystem to another it is possible to do a REPAIR CATALOG to update catalog informations about RBA format, Row format and versions. There is no possiblity to repair index RBA format. We...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IN and NOT IN in transformer

In parallel transformer(Datastage) IN and NOT IN are not supported,it is being implemented by no of OR and/or OR and NOT operator. Also if any dynamic conditions need to be provided from a single parameter it can not be possible.So IN and NOT IN n...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Open all Forms as a single report

A command to generate all applicable Forms in one go as a report. This will help the review process.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Company-wise allocation of individual account codes in the Group Journals

Company-wise allocation of individual account codes in the Group Journals
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Canadian Financial Institutions File (FIF) Table and Load Services Framework Task in FTM4C

Canadian check processing Business Rules would use the FIF table in the Routing Transit validation, FIF load task would tactically refresh all the views in Business Rules after the table update.
about 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Not under consideration